A look at the history of roads, streets, highways, freeways, bridges and tunnels of Melbourne and beyond.
Roads and Freeways
Then and now along the West Gate Freeway
December 10th, 2024
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Today we’re taking a ‘then and now’ tour over the West Gate Bridge. PROV image via West Gate Tunnel Project Approaching the Lower Yarra Freeway We start on the Prices Highway way back in 1969, one mile away from the junction with what was then called the ‘Lower Yarra Freeway’. VicRoads photo, via West Gate […]
Freeway spaghetti bowl at Keilor Park
November 19th, 2024
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If there is a most underrated freeway interchange in Melbourne, it would have to be that between the M80 Western Ring Road and the Calder Freeway at Keilor Park. Taking a tour From the air there is a tangle of freeway lanes, ramps and frontage roads. The interchange having a total of sixteen bridges. Including: […]
A public–private partnership for pothole repairs
September 10th, 2024
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All across Victoria potholes are a common sight, as finding for basic repairs has been funneled away for grand traffic congestion inducing projects like the West Gate Tunnel. But there is one exception – a few roads in Melbourne that were upgraded as part of the ‘Western Roads Upgrade’ project. So why are they different? […]
Double stacked containers and road trains
April 23rd, 2024
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Trains have been around for years, as have intermodal containers, and the advent of double stacking enabled trains to carry twice as many containers as before. But what if you tried the same with a truck? Double stacking containers on trucks In 2023 Qube Logistics along with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and the […]
Fixing a failing retaining wall in St Albans
April 9th, 2024
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How long does it take VicRoads to fix a failing retaining wall? Well, in the case of the Taylors Road underpass at St Albans, it only took them a decade. The story begins Once upon a time Taylors Road was a road in the middle of nowhere, beyond the edge of suburban Melbourne. Melway Edition […]
